Re: coretemp 70C = CPU too hot?

2008-05-09 Thread Christian Zachariasen
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:55 AM, Nerius Landys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy. I purchased a 1U 10 inch deep server machine a few months ago: http://www.abmx.com/1u-10inch-deep-supermicro-mini-server-p-366.html?osCsid=80f3951929d5a7ae27a51733627ee18a The CPU is a Xeon 3xxx dual core 2.4 GHz.

Re: coretemp 70C = CPU too hot?

2008-05-09 Thread Josh Carroll
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:55 PM, Nerius Landys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy. I purchased a 1U 10 inch deep server machine a few months ago: http://www.abmx.com/1u-10inch-deep-supermicro-mini-server-p-366.html?osCsid=80f3951929d5a7ae27a51733627ee18a The CPU is a Xeon 3xxx dual core 2.4 GHz.

Re: coretemp 70C = CPU too hot?

2008-05-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The CPU is a Xeon 3xxx dual core 2.4 GHz. The machine has no case fans, by design. no fans by design?! looks like bad design, intel xeon draw a lot of power. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: coretemp 70C = CPU too hot?

2008-05-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
As with so many other things in the computer world, it depends. With no case fans, it's weird that the computer gets colder if it has something above and no it's not. the machines above and below has proper cooling, and transfers this machine heat by conduction - rack cases are mostly metal

Re: coretemp 70C = CPU too hot?

2008-05-09 Thread Christian Zachariasen
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As with so many other things in the computer world, it depends. With no case fans, it's weird that the computer gets colder if it has something above and no it's not. the machines above and below has proper cooling,

JOBUG - Johannesburg BSD User Group?

2008-05-09 Thread Rudi Kramer - MWEB
Hello, I was wondering if we have any South Africa's living in JHB that would be interested in starting up a BSD user group? Regards Rudi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

How to config ipv6 for this instance

2008-05-09 Thread Xiaobo Zhu
Hi, I have read some tutor and spent hours on configuring ipv6 on my desktop with FreeBSD, but still can't get it work. The network administrator only suggested the configuration on windows xp platform(come as follows), so would any one tell me what should I do to get it work on FreeBSD. Many

hdparm equivalent

2008-05-09 Thread Thomas Herzog
hi, is there a hdparm equivalent tool, to set the power-save or spin-down behavior of sata-disk? or can i to it via sysctl or so? thanks Thomas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: hdparm equivalent

2008-05-09 Thread Vince Hoffman
Thomas Herzog wrote: hi, is there a hdparm equivalent tool, to set the power-save or spin-down behavior of sata-disk? or can i to it via sysctl or so? sysutils/ataidle in ports at the moment. I believe atacontrol has grown some support for this in current. vince thanks Thomas

Re: hdparm equivalent

2008-05-09 Thread Thomas Herzog
many thanks for this fast answer. thomas Vince Hoffman wrote: Thomas Herzog wrote: hi, is there a hdparm equivalent tool, to set the power-save or spin-down behavior of sata-disk? or can i to it via sysctl or so? sysutils/ataidle in ports at the moment. I believe atacontrol has grown some

Re: Apache 2.2.8 + mod_authnz_ldap

2008-05-09 Thread Mel
On Friday 09 May 2008 02:03:01 n j wrote: Hello, did anyone experience any problems trying to install mod_authnz_ldap with Apache 2.2.8 on FreeBSD 6.3? I ran into the following trouble: mod_authnz_ldap.c:41:2: #error mod_authnz_ldap requires APR-util to have LDAP support built in. To fix

slapd won't start with nss_ldap.conf

2008-05-09 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On a FreeBSD 6.1 with openldap-server-2.3.39, I have setup nss_ldap and pam_ldap, but cannot get slapd to start as long as I have nss_ldap.conf present, it just hangs and nothing in the messages or debug logs. I just copied ldap.conf to nss_ldap.conf, see contents below. As soon as I rm the

Makefile OPTIONS (was: Re: Apache 2.2.8 + mod_authnz_ldap)

2008-05-09 Thread n j
What are you using for apr? The one that comes with apache itself, or the devel/apr port? AFAICT, the one that comes with Apache itself. It would seem that mod_authnz_ldap required mod_ldap to be compiled in Apache to work. Having little or no experience at all with Apache + LDAP combination

Re: ports missing after a upgrade

2008-05-09 Thread Geert Geurts
I cannot find the version anymore because of Xorg being broken and complains about libxau.so.0 on startup But I think it must be at the latest version of FreeBSD 6.0. Greetings, Geert On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 13:33 +0100, RW wrote: On Wed, 07 May 2008 13:42:00 +0200 Geert Geurts [EMAIL

Questions from a Total samba Novice.

2008-05-09 Thread Martin McCormick
I just found out that I will need to copy some files from a FreeBSD system to a Windows shared drive on our network so that Windows users can have access to the files. After reading a little documentation and talking to a cowworker, I was under the impression that this would allow

Re: Makefile OPTIONS (was: Re: Apache 2.2.8 + mod_authnz_ldap)

2008-05-09 Thread Mel
On Friday 09 May 2008 15:15:05 n j wrote: What are you using for apr? The one that comes with apache itself, or the devel/apr port? AFAICT, the one that comes with Apache itself. It would seem that mod_authnz_ldap required mod_ldap to be compiled in Apache to work. Having little or no

Re: Questions from a Total samba Novice.

2008-05-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Martin McCormick wrote: I just found out that I will need to copy some files from a FreeBSD system to a Windows shared drive on our network so that Windows users can have access to the files. After reading a little documentation and talking to a cowworker, I was under the

Re: Questions from a Total samba Novice.

2008-05-09 Thread Dimitri Yioulos
On Friday 09 May 2008 9:49 am, Ivan Voras wrote: Martin McCormick wrote: I just found out that I will need to copy some files from a FreeBSD system to a Windows shared drive on our network so that Windows users can have access to the files. After reading a little documentation

Re: Questions from a Total samba Novice.

2008-05-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
smbclient(1) The smbclient program implements a simple ftp-like client. This is useful for accessing SMB shares on other compatible servers (such as Windows NT), and can also be used to allow a UNIX box to print to a printer attached to any SMB

Re: bge1: watchdog timeout -- resetting bge1: link state changed to DOWN

2008-05-09 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 23:35 +0300, Indiana Jones wrote: If anybody could provide a solid solution, I'd be most grateful. I have this box that works as an Internet router and I have two NICs in it, 3com 3C996-SX and 3C996-T, the later is bge1 on which I get this persistent ERROR below,

Re: hdparm equivalent

2008-05-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
atacontrol On Fri, 9 May 2008, Thomas Herzog wrote: hi, is there a hdparm equivalent tool, to set the power-save or spin-down behavior of sata-disk? or can i to it via sysctl or so? thanks Thomas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Questions from a Total samba Novice.

2008-05-09 Thread Stephen Allen
(forgot to send to list the first time) Hi Martin, You don't need samba if all you want to do is copy files from FreeBSD to a Windows system. The easiest way to do it is to mount an existing Windows share, on FreeBSD. This will give you access to the Windows share, but nothing is shared

Re: Questions from a Total samba Novice.

2008-05-09 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 9 May 2008, Martin McCormick wrote: I just found out that I will need to copy some files from a FreeBSD system to a Windows shared drive on our network so that Windows users can have access to the files. Some alternatives have been mentioned, but you might also consider

Re: Questions from a Total samba Novice.

2008-05-09 Thread Gerard
On Fri, 9 May 2008 16:40:01 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: smbclient connects to any SMB server (be it Windows or unix or whatever) and perform fetch, upload and other operations from command line. it's good to: testing your samba setup (if you need)

Re: coretemp 70C = CPU too hot?

2008-05-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 08:10:40AM +0200, Christian Zachariasen wrote: On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:55 AM, Nerius Landys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy. I purchased a 1U 10 inch deep server machine a few months ago:

FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-09 Thread DAve
Good morning. I recently upgraded our two email gateways from 4.8 to 6.2. The required software was upgraded as well which consists of MailScanner and Sendmail. Both had been keep up to date so it was not a jump in required resources. The issue I am seeing is that my server load, under the

Re: Makefile OPTIONS (was: Re: Apache 2.2.8 + mod_authnz_ldap)

2008-05-09 Thread n j
If this is a fixed dependency, then it's a bug in the port's Makefile. If it's not set in stone (i.e.: mod_authnz_ldap could also work with mod_fictional_3rdparty_ldap), then applying the logic you suggest, would kill the option to use mod_fictional_3rdparty_ldap. Set in stone would

Re: Questions from a Total samba Novice.

2008-05-09 Thread Martin McCormick
Warren Block writes: Some alternatives have been mentioned, but you might also consider mount_smbfs(8). I hope I managed to thank each of you who responded as I feel like I know where I need to go next thanks to all the great suggestions. I would have had to enabled nfs client

Re: Questions from a Total samba Novice.

2008-05-09 Thread Stephen Allen
Hi Martin, I would have had to enabled nfs client if using mount_smbfs, correct? Nopes - stick to using the mount command. Depending on the filesystem you specify (with the -t option), it will call the relevant mount command itself (eg. mount_smbfs, mount_nfs). When I

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2008-05-09 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that

The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2008-05-09 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception.

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
DAve wrote: Good morning. I recently upgraded our two email gateways from 4.8 to 6.2. The required software was upgraded as well which consists of MailScanner and Sendmail. Both had been keep up to date so it was not a jump in required resources. The issue I am seeing is that my server

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 9, 2008, at 8:54 AM, DAve wrote: The issue I am seeing is that my server load, under the same traffic load, has increased 4 times or more. Where previously we saw a high load on the servers of 5 to 8, we are now seeing 14 to 17. Since the upgrade Sendmail has begun to timeout

correct #define in source to specify FBSD vs. linux?

2008-05-09 Thread Steve Franks
On and on I charge porting linux engineering tools. Major pita. I see a bunch of #ifdef __APPLE__ lines to pull in alternate headers; what's the equiv for FreeBSD? Thanks, Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: correct #define in source to specify FBSD vs. linux?

2008-05-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 9, 2008, at 10:56 AM, Steve Franks wrote: On and on I charge porting linux engineering tools. Major pita. I see a bunch of #ifdef __APPLE__ lines to pull in alternate headers; what's the equiv for FreeBSD? __FreeBSD__ You might find the output of touch foo.h ; cpp -dM fooo.h

mounting linux partitions

2008-05-09 Thread Isaac Mushinsky
I have installed a linux distro on a partition of my machine (latest Mandriva i686, default installation). I only need it to use a piece of software for Nikon Coolscan IV film scanner (yes, sane works, but a cheap commercial package called vuescan has better interface and uses some hardware

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
software was upgraded as well which consists of MailScanner and Sendmail. Both had been keep up to date so it was not a jump in required resources. The issue I am seeing is that my server load, under the same traffic load, has increased 4 times or more. Where previously we saw a high load on

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
FreeBSD 6.2 is I believe slower than 4.11 for single processor systems and processes which pretty much run single threaded -- ie. exactly what you're trying to run. This would cause exactly the sort of symptoms you're seeing. and what most unix users do. Try 7.0 instead -- it has all of the

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 9, 2008, at 11:30 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Try 7.0 instead -- it has all of the speed at multi-threaded, multi- core type stuff but has also regained the sort of performance levels you could so 4.11 is fastest? For single-processor systems, FreeBSD 4.11 does very well at a lot of

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-09 Thread DAve
Wojciech Puchar wrote: software was upgraded as well which consists of MailScanner and Sendmail. Both had been keep up to date so it was not a jump in required resources. The issue I am seeing is that my server load, under the same traffic load, has increased 4 times or more. Where

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-09 Thread DAve
Wojciech Puchar wrote: FreeBSD 6.2 is I believe slower than 4.11 for single processor systems and processes which pretty much run single threaded -- ie. exactly what you're trying to run. This would cause exactly the sort of symptoms you're seeing. and what most unix users do. Try 7.0

Re: [SSHd] Increasing wait time?

2008-05-09 Thread Christian Laursen
Peter Boosten [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, I was more thinking of: ssh -L :your.own.host:22 [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then open a new shell: scp -P the-file-you-want-to-copy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This works easiest with agent forwarding, but I guess any authentication will do. It is

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-09 Thread DAve
Chuck Swiger wrote: On May 9, 2008, at 11:30 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Try 7.0 instead -- it has all of the speed at multi-threaded, multi-core type stuff but has also regained the sort of performance levels you could so 4.11 is fastest? For single-processor systems, FreeBSD 4.11 does

Re: ports missing after a upgrade

2008-05-09 Thread RW
On Fri, 09 May 2008 15:24:03 +0200 Geert Geurts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot find the version anymore because of Xorg being broken and complains about libxau.so.0 on startup But I think it must be at the latest version of FreeBSD 6.0. In that case you should read the 20070519 entry in

growisofs: inapropriate ioctl for device

2008-05-09 Thread Steve Franks
I get the following from growisofs -Z/dev/acd0=image.iso: :-( unable to CAMGETPASSTHRU for /dev/acd0: Inappropriate ioctl for device My burner was previously installed in my 6.3 amd64 system without issues. dmesg reports (after growisofs fails): ... acd0: DVDR NEC DVD RW ND-3500AG/2.16 at

Re: growisofs: inapropriate ioctl for device

2008-05-09 Thread Josh Carroll
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get the following from growisofs -Z/dev/acd0=image.iso: :-( unable to CAMGETPASSTHRU for /dev/acd0: Inappropriate ioctl for device Use /dev/cd0, not /dev/acd0. Josh ___

freebsd7 on older machines

2008-05-09 Thread prad
i can't seem to boot the cdrom on older hardware (500MHz and down). i read somewhere that the older drives aren't supported by the installation cdrom. i want to create a series of 'dumb terminals' which can ssh -Y into a faster machine. if necessary i suppose i can floppy in and then install via

Re: slapd won't start with nss_ldap.conf

2008-05-09 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 09 May 2008 14:36, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: On a FreeBSD 6.1 with openldap-server-2.3.39, I have setup nss_ldap and pam_ldap, but cannot get slapd to start as long as I have nss_ldap.conf present, it just hangs and nothing in the messages or debug logs. I just copied ldap.conf to

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 9, 2008, at 11:55 AM, DAve wrote: For single-processor systems, FreeBSD 4.11 does very well at a lot of tasks. However, Dave apparently has a 4-CPU system (~8 threads if he enabled hyperthreading), and for real SMP hardware, more recent versions of FreeBSD generally perform better

Re: slapd won't start with nss_ldap.conf

2008-05-09 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 22:44 +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Friday 09 May 2008 14:36, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: On a FreeBSD 6.1 with openldap-server-2.3.39, I have setup nss_ldap and pam_ldap, but cannot get slapd to start as long as I have nss_ldap.conf present, it just hangs and

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-09 Thread DAve
Chuck Swiger wrote: On May 9, 2008, at 11:55 AM, DAve wrote: For single-processor systems, FreeBSD 4.11 does very well at a lot of tasks. However, Dave apparently has a 4-CPU system (~8 threads if he enabled hyperthreading), and for real SMP hardware, more recent versions of FreeBSD

Re: slapd won't start with nss_ldap.conf

2008-05-09 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 09 May 2008 23:09, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 22:44 +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Friday 09 May 2008 14:36, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: On a FreeBSD 6.1 with openldap-server-2.3.39, I have setup nss_ldap and pam_ldap, but cannot get slapd to start as long

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-09 Thread DAve
Chuck Swiger wrote: On May 9, 2008, at 8:54 AM, DAve wrote: The issue I am seeing is that my server load, under the same traffic load, has increased 4 times or more. Where previously we saw a high load on the servers of 5 to 8, we are now seeing 14 to 17. Since the upgrade Sendmail has begun

Re: freebsd7 on older machines

2008-05-09 Thread Manolis Kiagias
prad wrote: i can't seem to boot the cdrom on older hardware (500MHz and down). i read somewhere that the older drives aren't supported by the installation cdrom. i want to create a series of 'dumb terminals' which can ssh -Y into a faster machine. if necessary i suppose i can floppy in and

Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

2008-05-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
Wojciech Puchar wrote: FreeBSD 6.2 is I believe slower than 4.11 for single processor systems and processes which pretty much run single threaded -- ie. exactly what you're trying to run. This would cause exactly the sort of symptoms you're seeing. Actually I was mistaken: I saw 4.11 and

Re: coretemp 70C = CPU too hot?

2008-05-09 Thread xSAPPYx
Also something to keep in mind, most (all?) new procs have thermal cuttoffs that will kill themselves before any damage happens. If you box hasn't shut down in weird ways or underclocked itself, you are probably good to go. It's something to keep your eye on, but I wouldn't worry too much about it

Re: [CRON] Recommended FTP client to download and upload files?

2008-05-09 Thread Gilles
On Sat, 03 May 2008 16:46:27 +0200, Gilles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What command-line FTP client would you recommend for this? It looks like lftp is not running like I thought it would :/ Until I ran the following commands manually instead of through CRON, some files on the remote source FTP

Re: coretemp 70C = CPU too hot?

2008-05-09 Thread Nerius Landys
Thanks for all the replies guys. I called the manufacturer and it turns out that there's a manual speed controller on the CPU fan. I'm going to take the top off my case and crank it up all the way at my first opportunity. That will at least help a little bit. Thanks again. I still think 70

Re: [CRON] Recommended FTP client to download and upload files?

2008-05-09 Thread Gilles
On Sat, 10 May 2008 01:53:13 +0200, Gilles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks like lftp is not running like I thought it would Found what it was: The script worked fine when ran manually, but failed when ran by CRON because it couldn't locate lftp: Downloading from Source FTP /var/sync.bash: line

How to config ipv6 for this instance

2008-05-09 Thread Xiaobo Zhu
Hi, I have read the handbook and spent hours on the configuration of ipv6 on laptop, but still can't get it done. The local network administrator only suggest the following steps to setup ipv6 on windows xp and it works fine on that platform. I just don't know to get it work on FreeBSD, would